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Leukemia stem cells in a genetically defined murine model of blast-crisis CML.
Blood - 1 Oct 2007
Neering Sarah J, Bushnell Timothy, Sozer Selcuk, Ashton John, Rossi Randall M, Wang Pin-Yi, Bell Deborah R, Heinrich David, Bottaro Andrea, Jordan Craig T
Abstract excerpt
Myeloid leukemia arises from leukemia stem cells (LSCs), which are resistant to standard chemotherapy agents and likely to be a major cause of drug-resistant disease and relapse. To investigate the in vivo properties of LSCs, we developed a mouse model in which the biologic features of human LSCs are closely mimicked. Primitive normal hematopoietic cells were modified to express the BCR/ABL and Nup98/HoxA9...
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